Psychosynthesis
Psychosynthesis is a holistic approach to psychotherapy that recognises the full spectrum of human experience — from our wounds and patterns to our deepest longings and highest potential.
It offers a compassionate, integrative framework for self-exploration, healing, and transformation.
Developed by Italian psychiatrist Roberto Assagioli, a contemporary of Freud and Jung, psychosynthesis builds upon the foundations of depth psychology while expanding beyond them. Freud revealed the importance of the unconscious and how our past shapes the present; Assagioli saw this as only part of the picture. He recognised that alongside our pain and defences exists an innate movement toward wholeness, meaning, and purpose.
Assagioli believed that healing involves more than understanding what’s wounded — it also means reconnecting with our essential self, the ‘I’ or centre of consciousness, and with what he called the Higher Self or Soul. True psychological growth, he proposed, includes awakening the will, integrating conflicting parts of the personality, and realising our spiritual nature — not necessarily in a religious sense, but in the human longing to live with authenticity, creativity, and inner freedom.
In our work together, we may explore your inner world through conversation, reflection, body awareness, or creative imagination — always guided by what feels natural and alive for you. Psychosynthesis does not impose a fixed path, but honours your unique journey toward integration and meaning.
Whether you’re facing anxiety, depression, grief, or major life transitions — or simply feel called to reconnect with something deeper — psychosynthesis offers a way of rediscovering your inner resources and realigning with who you truly are: not only as a personality shaped by the past, but as a soul in the process of becoming.
“The aim of psychosynthesis is to harmonise all aspects of the human being — physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual — around a unifying centre.”
— Roberto Assagioli
Why I Chose to Train in Psychosynthesis
What first drew me to psychosynthesis was its faith in human potential — its understanding that within every difficulty lies the possibility of growth and transformation.
Assagioli saw psychosynthesis not only as a psychotherapy, but as a way of living: one that embraces the full richness of our human experience.
Sometimes described as a psychotherapy of love and will, psychosynthesis reflects something very close to my heart. It mirrors my own gentle nature and my lifelong sense that there is more to each of us than what the eye perceives. From an early age, I’ve had an intuitive knowing that within us lies something vast, wise, and quietly radiant.
I was also drawn to the way psychosynthesis works with what is emerging — with potential, not just pathology. It invites us to ask not only “What’s wrong?” but also “What’s trying to grow?” This orientation gives deep meaning and purpose to the therapeutic process.
Before training in psychosynthesis, I spent many years working with EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques), a gentle, energy-based method that engages the mind-body system.
When I encountered psychosynthesis, it felt like a natural evolution — a seamless integration of the psychological and the energetic, the emotional and the spiritual. Both continue to inform my work today, offering a flexible and deeply compassionate way of meeting each person as a whole.
If you feel drawn to explore this work, you’re warmly invited to get in touch. Our first few sessions will give us a sense of whether we feel right to work together.